We work for a world where everyone can enjoy their human rights, whatever their migration status.
The EU Migration Pact is built on the assumption that all people who arrive or reside in the EU irregularly and whose asylum applications are unsuccessful should leave Europe.
According to news reports (no official text is available yet), Italy and Albania struck a deal that would see Italy building an identification and a deportation centre in Albania for people rescued at sea by the Italian coast guard and navy.
📚 New research we supported - carried out by @weatherburn_amy @ULBruxelles - shows how the exploitation of migrant workers working in the EU under a combined residence + work permit (“single permit”) is facilitated by EU rules, such as those in the Single Permit Directive.
Children above 12 could be detained at borders in some circumstances. Despite the internationally recognised definition of children being every person until the age of 18, the compromises would validate a new line in the middle of adolescence.
2. Let's start with the positives. The Strategy recognises the poor working conditions of migrant domestic & care workers; and calls on member states to address gaps in enforcement of EU labour law and ratify ILO Convention 189 to protect ALL domestic workers.